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The Personality of the 12 Organs and the 12 Channels
a weekend workshop
As
an acupuncturist I have come to understand that any given dis-ease or
disorder can manifest in any of the four bodies. It can manifest in the
physical, Qi Shen and Ancestor 'bodies'. Helping a patient to get over
a given illness or dis-ease involves getting leverage. In a treatment
setting the question is 'where do you apply the intervention?' do you
work the physical layer with acupressure, etc? Or do you listen to the
pulses, palpate the belly and the channels, tune in to the Qi, and
adjust the Qi body? Or do you attune to the imbalance at the level of
the Shen body. Each of the 12 organs and the 12 channels is associated
with specific mental and emotional, afflictive and redemptive themes.
We recognize these themes as we listen to our patients' stories. Do we
intervene at the level of the Shen body? We can do this by creating
dialogue or internal enquiry, or by using techniques so that the
patient and/or practitioner actively work with the Shen component of
the illness.
Each level of possible intervention -
physical body, Qi body, Shen body, Ancestor Realm - represents a place
where the practitioner can potentially get leverage to shift the whole
human system such that it moves back into harmony, back towards
balance. Because of the high degree of harmonic concordance within
12-fold systems, using the distinctions of the 12 channels can bring
harmony back to the human system. The Nei Jing says that all diseases
can be cured from the acupuncture channels. I say that this is true,
but it works best if you know what level of the channel distinction you
are working with. Are you working with the channel at the muscle level,
the energy - Qi level, the Shen level or the ancestor level? In order
to work at the level of the Shen we must recognise the Shen
manifestations of the 12 organs and their corresponding channels.
One
of the keys to effective acupuncture treatment is to determine which
organ is carrying the difficulty. This is also true at the level of the
Shen. In this seminar we will examine these thematic elements by
exploring the mental and emotional components of the organs and
channels expressed in the following systems:
The 12 Earth Branches
The 12 animals
The 12 hour clock cycle
The geometry and mathematics of 12
The anatomy and physiology of the organs
The energetic processes of the channel and
organs according to Sacred Acupuncture
The insights of TCM
Insights from the time of the Nei Jing
Ideas and insights derived from my teachers
The medieval mystical teachings of the stations
of the cross and St.
Bonaventura's 12 branches
of the Cross
The picture to the left is a link to a talk. This
is an mp3 file. Depending on your connection speed it may take a few
minutes to download. This talk is an overview of the workshop and a
brief explanation of each of these viewpoints, or lenses, with which we
can understand the Shen components of the 12 organs and the 12 channels.
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Date: Saturday June 28
Sunday June 29
Time: 9 AM to 5:30 PM Saturday
10 AM to 5:30 PM Sunday
Cost:
$199
cost for students: $99
CEU's: approval pending for 15 hours of CEU's for California acupuncturists.
Contact me on:
408 476 9799
to register for this Seminar.
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